Youngju Joung’s work portrays a shanty town hid by the buildings inthe city. She pastes a Korean hand-made paper on a canvas, then,applies colors on it. This method is similar to 'papier colle' technique.The unique characteristic appearing in Korean hand-made papersallows her work seen like absorbing sunlight and revealing it warmly.She started to use and explore the technique since she had studied inParis.What she is now is the assemblage made of the fragments of hermemories in the past. She wants that the idea is also revealed in herwork: She employs hundreds of pieces of paper in order to make ahouse, town and the world in her work.House is not only a physical space, but also a base of human spirit andculture, as well as a private history. Many people, however, pursuesomething new while they easily forget and destroy the old ones, suchas old houses in the shanty town. She doesn’t think that the newbuildings suddenly appearing overnight contain good memories anddeliver it to people because there is no human nature. She regrets thatthe shanty town becomes disappearing. So, she tries to give it animportant role as a main actor in the lives existing in her works. In thispoint, her works are really paradoxical because it is not likely tohappen that the shanty town and old memories would be amainstream in this generation covered with massive buildings andcapitalism.Her works are an attempt to express paradise with somethingdiscarded or forgotten. The shanty town on her canvas gives a certainkind of silent stability and warmth to people who might be tired of thecity.